Monday, 21 November 2011 10:51 'According to Russian news agencies, Makarov stated that “under certain conditions local and regional conflicts may develop into a full-scale war involving nuclear weapons.” The general said: “The possibility of local armed conflicts along nearly the whole border has increased dramatically. In certain conditions, I do not rule out local and regional armed conflicts developing into a large-scale war, including using nuclear weapons.”' Read more: Russia Threatens Use of Nuclear Weapons Monday, 21 November 2011 10:21 'In an astonishingly frank admission, a key civil servant who worked on the Digital Economy Act (DE Act) has revealed that the UK government did not gather any evidence to support the copyright enforcement policies. They just relied on statistics supplied by the rights-holders. Worse still, civil servants were not able to assess how those statistics were compiled – because the rights-holders weren’t willing to let them. Finally, in a damming indictment of the civil service processing of the DE Act, he let slip that they were just trying to make “the best brick they could, with what straw they could find”.' Read more: We Had No Evidence for Digital Economy Act, UK Government Confesses
Monday, 21 November 2011
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